Interview with Myk Jung of Testify

Interview by Sophia K. Clark

Band: Testifyfull name: Myk Jungnicknames: the stone-old: der Uraltehometown:Essen/Germanydo you drink: yes.school: Burggymnasyumfavorite shampoo: GHUUHLfavorite colour: surprise - Black.do you make fun of people: no.have you ever gone skinny dipping: don't know what that is.have you eer been convicted of a crime: strange question to the Black Avengerpets: 13-year old girls in the toilet - the only petsfavorite movie: Lost Highwayfavorite type of music: Noise of Wrathhobbies: trying not to die from boredomdream car: I don't dream of cars, I dream of ATRtype of car you drive now: Opel Kadett from 1986, coloured like the shit of pigeonswords or phrases you overuse: mentally deranged, hopelessness, ATR, 13-year-old girls, hate against a world that has gone mad, wratfavorite food: I try to get rid of the habit of eatingpiercing or tattoos: no piercings aside the six earings dangling in the left ear since 1986/ first tattoo told me to arrive in 2000.most romantic thing that ever happened to you: the gaze of ATRromantic - or not: changes from year to yeardo you get along with your parents: I do get along with everyone - with the exception of those that don't notice itfavorite town to chill in: Manacofavorite ice-cream: lemofavorite fruit: definitely not lemon. pineapple, or so, I thinfavorite drink: for the time being white wine, but that may change next monthwhat's your bed-time: depends on the drugsfavorite perfume: Tabak aftershavefavorite song at the moment: Black Widow Goddess/Nice Gods Bleedfavorite musical groups: The Noise Of Wrathfavorite website: Testify'sfavorite subject in school: ATRleast favorite subject: mathematicsfavorite alcoholic drink: too many of themfavorite sport to watch: soccer, of coursemost humiliating moment: the gaze of ATRloudest person you know: Catorlioncraziest person or silliest you know: I will not mention the name lest I get reminded of that personfavorite holiday: yet to comewhat do you look for in a sex-partner: the likeness of ATR

When Testify comes to an end, what would you like it to be like?

When Testify decide to lay down the burden of activity, I would
like them to be a phenomenon that is known by more than a dozen people -
but that is not the truth, only a silly slogan - I would like Testify to
end up as fucked-up rockstars.

Do you ever get sick of the Ministry comparisons?

We will never get sick of Ministry comparisons, of course. When
starting the whole Testify thing we had nothing else in mind as making
people ask themselves: "Is that Ministy, or what??" - or perhaps:
Cool! That's the best Ministry song I 've ever heard! Moreover it's
probably a good promotional strategy - for a quite unknown act, if
others may wonder: "Ey, Testify - isn't it the project of the
Ministry-crew, when they are disguised as mentally insane Germans??"

Where do you draw the line between insane and sane ?

I would never be so impudent to make a general definition of
insanity - who's insane and who's not. I have only the vague fear that
there's something wrong with Testify-member's brain-patterns. That they
still continue to do their weird shit - that alone is a sign of mental
weakness.

What's something you'd like to do, but wont because of the consequences ?

Aaaah! There will ne numerous things! But the answer can only be
non-surprising: various things that all have to do with the Biggest
Drug, and terrible visions of sex beyond compare, and so on...

What drugs do you do ? why ?

There are substances that make you feel better, for a short
period of time, in this grey world, yes. But nobody expects me to really
give away the names of the favorite ones, eh?! And why should the paltry
humans do such a thing? Because of the greyness of the world, for
example.

What's the craziest thing you've done on drugs ?

The most craziest things I do when I'm not on drugs.

How has the music scene changed since you first entered it ?

The faces all around me seem to be younger than centuries ago.

What are you doing tommorow ?

Tomorrow there will be another photo-session of Testify, in
Mettmann, one of the craziest towns in the W3lfrath-region. I'll meet
the five other mentally-deranged, after we had not met some weeks
indeed.

What do you want to do tommorow ?

I want to get a phone-call from a girl - at best one of those I
never got to know closely - inviting me into her bed -straight, at
once, at best as initional-sequence of the telephone call.Saskya would be
a possibility!